Thu, May-31-07, 10:33
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Plan: Paleoish/Keto
Stats: 225/167/175
BF:18%
Progress: 116%
Location: Longmont, Colorado
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If you are concerned about your liver, then eating low carb is the best diet. Fatty liver is caused by carbohydrate intake, not fat. One liver specialist, http://www.liverdoctor.com/newslett.../fattyliver.asp, recommends a low carb diet as the first step in making the liver better.
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Vital principles to reverse a fatty liver
1. Follow a low carbohydrate diet
This excludes sugar, refined and/or bleached flour and foods containing these things. Avoid all foods with added sugar (we will be covering food labels and how to read them in later editions of this newsletter). If you are overweight and find it very difficult to lose weight, it is more effective to exclude ALL grains for at least 3 months and be on a “no grain diet”. You can replace these grains with legumes (beans, lentils & chickpeas), seeds and nuts.
Grains to exclude are wheat, rye, barley, oats, rice and corn.
Carbohydrates to avoid -
These include table sugar, foods with added sugar or maltodextrin, fructose, polydextrose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, honey, golden syrup, molasses, jams, preserves made with sugar, candies, sweet desserts, ice-cream (but we will be including low carb healthy ice cream recipes in future editions), muffins, donuts, pizza, pretzels, chips, pastry, cakes and biscuits. The best types of chocolate for those with a fatty liver are the new low-carb guilt free range of chocolates or dark chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa.
Carbohydrates to minimize-
Include flour, breads, packaged cereals, crackers, pasta, noodles, and spaghetti.
If you crave sugar try to replace it with stevia, the naturally sweet herb, which has no effect on blood sugar and is calorie free. Stevia is available in the form of powder, tablets and drops and can safely be used by diabetics. Xylitol or Agave sweet cactus are not as slimming as stevia, but are much less calorific than regular sugar.
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The first time that I had liver tests done that showed all parameters to be within the normal range was after I started low carbing and eating more fats.
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